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DIED. GORDON WILSON, 67, peace activist; of a heart attack; in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. In 1987 Wilson's daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb, and in a moving rejection of his country's bloody bouts of violence and retribution, he publicly forgave her murderers...
...improvisational brio and numinous respect for sources and traditions." Pianist Jones and bassist Haden have drawn on some history and autobiography and a little private meditation, set them deep in the spirit, then drawn them out into a jazz pilgrimage through Black spirituals, white hymns and folk tunes from Ireland and French Canada. "This isn't just great music," says Cocks. "It's healing music...
...Thatcher in 1990, Tories hoped his softer, more conciliatory manner would win them voter approval. He did lead the party to a surprise, come-from-behind victory in the 1992 election--albeit with considerable help from an overconfident Labour campaign. Major has helped broker progress toward peace in Northern Ireland, a considerable achievement. He can also be credited with overseeing a striking economic upturn. Economic growth is strong, exports are booming, and unemployment is at 8.5%, one of the lowest levels in the E.U. This robust performance is dampened only by a continued weakness in the housing market, which means...
...visit to Sicily. Although past pontiffs have made general denunciations of violence, the current pope has been the first to single out the Mob, saysTIME's Richard Ostling. "John Paul is not one to be intimidated. He beat the Communist leaders in Poland. He's denounced the IRA in Ireland, rebuked leaders for human rights violations in places like Brazil, and chastised the Supreme Court on abortion while just a few blocks down the Mall." The Vatican could face a stiff backlash. After the 1993 speech in Sicily, two church bombs exploded in Rome and a priest was gunned down...
...made some sense that Elie Wiesel chose Venice as the place to bring together 30 interesting adolescents ("Tomorrow's Leaders") from various battlefields around the world (Bosnia, several African countries, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, some of the more violent neighborhoods of American cities) to talk about their lives. Venice, with its gorgeous, impastoed melancholy, exhausted the possibilities of human glory and depravity centuries ago. Wiesel's young, all vulnerability and fire, assembled at the other end of history altogether. Furious at what the blackhearted past has done to them, they made friends across their inherited fault lines (Israeli with...